How is Manuel Valls Doing?

France’s new prime minister, Manuel Valls, was appointed to his position last month by President François Hollande, as one of many attempts to revive that man’s flagging popularity, along with that of his Parti Socialiste (PS). A month into his tenure, things seem to be going well for a man whose leftist credentials are considered anything but pristine to his party’s most orthodox supporters, and who has, at the very least, stalled his party’s precipitous decline in public opinion.